Creative Color in Lightroom 4: Honey Dew

These settings work better in RAW image format. For the HONEY DEW color effect: 1. Open Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 and go to the Library Module. Choose your photo. 2. In the Develop Module, open Split Toning in the Adjustment Panel. Under Highlights and Shadows move the Hue and Saturation sliders to the values shown below. Adjust the Balance to -40. 3. Go to Tone Curve. Set Point Curve to Linear. Move Shadows to +10....

Creating Lomo Effect in Lightroom 4

This setting works better in RAW image format. 1. Open Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 and go to the Library Module. Choose your photo. 2. In the Develop Module, open the Tone Curve in the Adjustment Panel. Set the Point Curve to Linear. 3. Click the Edit Point Curve button. 4. In the Channel, select Red. 5. Place 2 points on the line by clicking the 2 locations shown below. 6. Drag down the lower point to about 17.5%. 7....

Creating Vintage Effect in Lightroom 4

1. Open Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 and go to the Library Module. Choose your photo (Raw Image Format). 2. In the Develop Module, open the Tone Curve in the Adjustment Panel. Set the Point Curve to Linear. 3. Click the Edit Point Curve button. Move down the point on the right to about 90%. 4. Click the Edit Point Curve button. 5. The Tone Curve regions (Highlights, Lights, Darks and Shadows) will appear. Move the sliders...

Creating Soft Pastel Tone Effect in Lightroom 4

This setting works better in RAW image format. 1. Open Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4 and go to the Library Module. Choose your photo. 2. In the Develop Module, open the Tone Curve in the Adjustment Panel. Set the Point Curve to Linear. 3. Click the Edit Point Curve button. Drag down the point on the far right of the graph to about 91.4%. Move the point on the left up to about 9.4%. This will give the image a slight gray...

Creating a Custom Logo and Using It as Watermark o...

I use 3 Software Programs to fulfill this: Powerpoint, Picture Manager and Photoshop Lightroom 3. 1. I begin by opening Powerpoint and remove the placeholders in the slide. 2. To form my logo, I add shapes and text box to my slide. 3. This is what my logo looks like. 4. I edit these shapes using the drawing tools as shown below. 5. I press CtrlA to select all the shapes. Then CtrlC to copy. 6. I open the Picture Manager...

Digital Photo Professional: Easy Steps to Enhance ...

Digital Photo Professional is an application that came with my Canon DSLR Camera. I used this as my editing tool for a few months before I bought my Photoshop Lightroom 3. The following steps are helpful to enhance a photo: 1. The Main Window Display appears after opening the application.  This shows the thumbnails from a certain folder. I double clicked the image that I wanted to edit.   2. Below is the Edit Window....

Touch-ups

This is one of my favorite features in Photoshop Lightroom 3. In the photo below, there are white and black spots, as indicated by the arrows. I wanted to remove these spots. In the Develop Module, 1. I selected the spot removal tool on the right adjustment panel, as shown. 2. A circle with four lines appeared when I positioned the mouse’ cursor over the black spot. I pressed the left button of the mouse. 3. Two...

The Beauty of Cropping Using Photoshop Lightroom 3

In addition to adding or reducing the vibrancy and other adjustments, I like changing the composition to make the photo more effective. In Photoshop Lightroom 3, adjusting the composition is very easy through creative cropping. 1. First, I selected the Crop Overlay as shown. In this photo, I would like to get rid of the space in the right portion of the photo. Horizontal and vertical lines appear. 2. I chose a corner where...

Processing the Blue Butterfly Photo using Photosho...

A few days ago, I received questions about my post, Blue Butterfly. Some people asked me how I managed to have a good lighting in the background and how I made the color of the butterfly vibrant. In this post, I want to share the processing method that I have done. Below is the original capture (RAW format). This photograph is good to begin with because the background is not very dim, the image is not blurry and the flowers...

African Daisy in Creamtone

There are so many Lightroom Presets that I love to use. Most often, I use the preset: Edge Effect – PC Vignette 2 because it creates a very nice fading effect on the edges of the photograph. This time I used the B&W Creative – Creamtone. Below are the easy steps to give you an idea of how I processed it. 1. On the left panel, I clicked the preset B&W Creative – Creamtone. 2. I made adjustments to the...